Archives for
January 2008

TiVo, the service that brought time-shifted television viewing to the masses, is about to adopt time-shifted internet media to subscribers to their service. Yesterday, at CES, they announced that all their subscribers will soon be able to select Inte...

We’re big fans here of this snazzy thing called RSS. We’re sure you are, too. Totally simple, totally syndicated. Who wouldn't love it so? Right, nobody. So let us waste no time sending along a nice, kind-hearted memo from the friendly developers ove...

The first company to bring you free directory assistance via the telephone, Jingle Networks, has raised nearly $13 million in Series C-1 funding. With return investors Goldman Sachs, IDG Ventures Boston, Liberty Associated Partners and First Round Ca...

Some of you may know just how uneasy Sprint’s future may seem at the moment, what with its steadily declining wireless subscription numbers and the corporate shuffle it had to endure last year. But hey, look on the bright side. WiMAX is a-comin’. No,...

ClipSyndicate, the video tool that lets web publishers offer quality news clips on their site, is releasing its video search API for social networks, news and video search platforms to use within their communities and services. What the controlled re...

Zotero (pronounced "zoh-TAIR-oh") is a new browser plugin that is aiming to help you with your online research for any number of projects. This tool will help you automatically store citations of webpages used in your research, store PDFs, take notes...

Just a scant seventeen hours ago, Ars Technica leveled a number of accusations at the new caretakers for the Twitter-like service Jaiku. They alleged that "Google has allowed Jaiku to languish" and described a "backlash from frustrated users who are ...

I've been hanging out running things with Paul, Sean and Stan today while just about everyone else in the Mashable crew traveled to San Francisco to get everything ready for the Awards Ceremony. At this point, if you haven't bought a ticket and aren'...

CEOs find the new year a good time to switch jobs, too. Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone is leaving the search engine to join venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures as entrepreneur-in-residence. According to Marketing Pilgrim, Jim Safka will take over the rol...

CNet has made a few changes lately, skimming down some portions of its portfolio in order to refocus on its core competencies, while also adding in new video features and making additional acquisitions as well. Despite the changes the company has had...

Can't make the Open Web Awards? With more than 400 people expected to attend tomorrow night's event and many more on the waiting list, we've decided to add an after patry to the fesitivities. The Open Web Awards After Party will be at Slide, 430 Maso...

Contrary to a recent study that showed that Facebook is among the most reliable social networks, new study conducted by WatchMouse shows abysmal results for Facebook. 104 sites were monitored by WatchMouse, and Facebook was by far the worst performan...

Twitter: easy to love, easy to clone. The first startup a young, aspiring web developer might want to try and build will probably be some version of Twitter, which can clearly be seen from all the local/regional Twitter clones we're encountering ever...

Pew Internet is back with one of their reports on the habits of internet users; this one shows that in 2007, 48% of internet users visited video sharing sites such as YouTube, and the traffic to these sites has doubled on a typical day. For compariso...

The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. New Listings Flash Word Games site ClownfishGames.com for sale! This website has a big pote...

Actually, it doesn't. The folks at Attributor merely took Maxim's Hot 100 list, as well as FHM's 100 Sexiest Women 2007 list, and then used their technology to see which one of those images has the most copies out there on the web. Therefore, this "r...

We knew it the second we saw those clever CSI detectives solve a crime using Twitter: the CSI team is about to bring the startup world to its knees. David Caruso has been spotted at CES, and apparently he's not there just to enjoy the show (or perhap...

There’s been a shift in the Wall Street Journal’s online business model. A partial one, to be precise. And by a partial one I mean a poorly contrived one. The undisputed nexus of the business journalism world, the WSJ is moving along at a measured pa...

The government has abducted web 2.0. It's officially unacceptable to use the term in everyday conversation, because it's gone far too mainstream and may be the true sign of a bubble. With big plans for 2008, Government Insights has released a report ...

I got a quick message from Chris Saad of the DataPortability Workgroup last night via Twitter: "Steve Ganz and Jim Meyer from LinkedIn are announcing their participation in DP workgroup 10AM PDT." It seems that members of the technical community are...

MySpace hasn’t been sitting in the most flattering of spotlights lately. For the last few days, the company has been forced to revisit an episode involving a Ms Megan Meier, a teenager taunted last year by a schoolmate’s deceptive parent to the point...

Voxant, a provider of licensed news content to websites, has named Marcien Jenckes, formerly of AOL, as it's new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Jenckes was the Senior Vice President of Messaging Community, Voice at AOL. This included overseeing their ...

Following the fall (felt round the world) of the sub-prime mortgage industry, Yahoo! seems to be capitalizing on the subsequent influx of available property listings in the real estate market. The Web giant has announced the launch of a new website, ...

JaseZone is an example of a website that comes about from two people sitting around and saying "You know, that LinkedIn sure is popular... we could do that!" Or, at least I want to blame the idea for it on a night of drinking with a buddy, otherwise ...

2swap is a book-swapping community like many others that have cropped up in the past couple of years The premise operates around the idea that you have books that other people would like to read, and other people have books that you'd like to read. T...

A misinformed Twitter message has led a lot of users astray, and gotten the hopes up of some Spanish-speaking micro-bloggers. A tip from FayerWayer let us know about a blog entry hat was posted by a newspaper in el Editors Day on Wednesday, with a su...

Seems that the social network that is always on everyone's lips, Facebook, will be getting some new features and updates in the not-so-distant future. It seems the much desired privacy controls for your friends, controlling who sees what, are finally...

Henry Blodget’s at it again. This morning he posted on the Silicon Alley Insider about Microsoft’s supposed renewed interest in the acquisition of Yahoo!. He got his fodder from the New York Post. And it wasn’t even good material. It was a brief clos...

That Wizzard Media has hit a billion download requests in 2007 is the news on everyone's lips these last couple of days. Indeed it is a milestone for Wizzard Media, and is probably worthy of note for those of us in the podcasting world to remember th...

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